Will Time Travel be Revealed in the Year 2028?

originally posted by: Itisnowagain
Even Dr Who never travelled through time. When he steps into the Tardis it is now and when he steps out it is now.
There is no time to travel through. There is only ever now appearing.

Time is a lie!

"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big
ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.”
Dr Who.

Even as a child I was totally confused by the concept of time. I recall asking questions that I struggled with even as a six year old, questions that
nobody could answer. Proving perhaps that a fool can ask more then all wise men can answer

"Mom, how long, exactly, does 'now' last"? - hinting at the next question: how can you measure that, it seems to require meta-time.. or, more
philosophical, "Dad, say that God exists, does he have the same 'time' we have, or is it literally true that 'one year is like a day to him'? (hinting
at God's missing granularity, perhaps that's why it takes some time before your prayers are answered..) or "say that God stops time on our level (he's
omnipotent they told me, so he can) .. would we notice?" (I didn't think so at the time, perhaps he did so a kazillion times already, but hey, I did
not notice). And more fascinating: if he can't stop time - we humans seem to create it by doing 'observation' - how can he be omnipotent? Omnipotence
is, like 'time', also mystery to me. A bit tongue-in-cheek question, but related, and one that always scares the bejeezus out of Jehova Witnesses,
whom ring my bell and ask if I believe in an omnipotent God: "If an omnipotent God exists, can he make a stone so heavy he can't lift it?" (which is
actually time related, as yes, he can make a stone NOW he can't lift NOW, but can lift it LATER).

Anyway. I believe time travel is done by all of us, continuously. Going 'back' is impossible, but we can create timelines that have the 'look and
feel' of yesteryears, probably employing VR. If there is a 'time memory' somewhere in a realm we don't understand yet, and we can 'tap' it, we may be
able to use that to recreate a certain place on a certain time that allows people to VIRTUALLY travel 'back' into time. But timelines would not
revert, timetravelers would have a continuous timeline since their birth. But they would be witnessing (or perhaps even be part of) a RECREATED
period of time, not actually that period itself as it has long 'gone' .

Even such mere VR time travel would have interesting implications, of course: that still would enable you to witness the murder of a person and see
'who dunnit', and arrest him. His or her rebuttal would probably be that the VR system has been hacked and that he is innocent. But alas, we still
don't have found the realm in which all events are recorded that ever happened, let alone how to 'tap' it. Perhaps our universe is splitting up in
multiverses at the speed of one per length-of-now which all freeze at that moment so we can later inspect them, but then the questions remains how to
tap them and inspect them - and hold on, aren't we changing them then? O, dear.

When I decided to check out ATS and write this reply, I actively choose for the continuation of a timeline, hence making ALL infinite other options
impossible. I must have passed an infinite number of 'nows' since then..

originally posted by: Itisnowagain
Even Dr Who never travelled through time. When he steps into the Tardis it is now and when he steps out it is now.
There is no time to travel through. There is only ever now appearing.

Time is a lie!

"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big
ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.”
Dr Who.

All instances of existence, are all now.

There is no now. Everything is past and future.

Yes - 'things' can only exist in the past and future stories that the mind tell. When does the mind tell stories? Now!!
Edit:
All that is, is present. But words make believe that there is some 'thing' other. The present configuration cannot be spoken about, it is
ungraspable with words - so the mind has to divide 'what is' into 'before and after'.

This is the presence of the lord - always.
But the mind speaks and invents some 'thing' outside presence and scares itself - any thing can happen in imagination - but what is really happening
seems to be missed.
Jesus was said to heal the deaf and blind - he who has ears hear, he who has eyes see!!

If there was no thought of other than what there is - no concepts - what would there actually be?

Is it not the case that if one was to travel away from earth at a vast speed and then return at a vast speed that upon return the time on ones wrist
watch would be different from those wrist watches that remained on earth?

If this is the case then you have the answer and its only the mechanism for traversing time either way that is required to make it possible.

I would also question premis that one wouldn't be able to traverse back in time beyond the date time travel was created!

If something has already happened then it exists/existed and is possibly recorded in the fabric of the universe (tapping into that fabric may be the
answer) and anything that is recorded can be replayed. The key is how do you enter the replay!

30 years from now we will be joking about how we thought time travel was impossible. And it may already be a joke in our future which may have already
occurred which means we actually are existing in the past thus time travel is a fundamental factor of the fabric of the universe!

I like this. Not really time travel, but relative time differences between you and the everyone else. I think someone mentioned time dilation. You
would not have traveled into the future per se...everyone's present would have gone on without you. Not sure how that would work going backward.

originally posted by: Itisnowagain
Even Dr Who never travelled through time. When he steps into the Tardis it is now and when he steps out it is now.
There is no time to travel through. There is only ever now appearing.

Time is a lie!

You sir are obviously not a Dr Who fan. The time lords created the time vortex which links every point in space and time. With the doctor there is
never truly a now. But this is difficult for even the doctor to explain but maybe the new doctor can help. Since she will have a unique look on
life.

originally posted by: Itisnowagain
Even Dr Who never travelled through time. When he steps into the Tardis it is now and when he steps out it is now.
There is no time to travel through. There is only ever now appearing.

Time is a lie!

"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big
ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.”
Dr Who.

All instances of existence, are all now.

There is no now. Everything is past and future.

Yes - 'things' can only exist in the past and future stories that the mind tell. When does the mind tell stories? Now!!
Edit:
All that is, is present. But words make believe that there is some 'thing' other. The present configuration cannot be spoken about, it is
ungraspable with words - so the mind has to divide 'what is' into 'before and after'.

It is never gone. All the while the defining is happening it is never not now.
Nothing can appear outside now - but words say there is an outside to now but those words appear and disappear now.

'Outside of now' is only a story - a dream of separation. It makes one believe that one 'has' a life.

Of course now will be denied because if it is seen - you (as a separate person) will die. There never was a separate person - so nothing really dies.
No thing was ever born - so no thing will ever die.

originally posted by: musicismagic
I've always wondered about "time traveling in the future", sad to say, there is no proof that is can possibly exist, for we as humans have only one
life span here on Earth.

Time traveling into the future is easy (well, okay, not easy, but POSSIBLE), and we've already done it on small scales. All you have to do is travel
at highly relativistic speeds to make a meaningful jump into the future of the reference frame here on Earth.

Time travel into the past ..... that's the one that might be impossible.

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